Safety-pocket.



M. PUGATSKY & S. MANNES.

SAFETY PGGKBT.

APPLIGATION mum Nov. 20, 1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

MAX PUGATSKY AND SAMUEL MANNES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFE DY-POCKET.

Application filed November 20, 1908. Serial No. 463,537.

To all whom it mag concern: j

' Be it known that we, MAx'IUoA'rsKY, a citizen of the United States of America, and SAMUEL MANNns, a subject of the Czar of Russia, both residents of the borou 'h of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Safety-Pockets, of which the followlng is a specification.

()ur invention relates to a garment pocket and particularly to that class which may be termed safety pockets, the object thereof being the provision in a garment of an ordinary pocket and in conjunction therewith an adjacent, supplemental and safety pocket provided with means at its opening or mouth for looking or securely closmg the same in order that money or otheigvaluable articles may be carried therein without the usual risk of being accidentally lost, and so also that the pocket can not be readily picked.

In carrying out our invention, we preferably employ a pocket comprising a front, a back, and an intermediate wall suitably se-. cured 'to a garment and connected to eachother with openings in the walls forming the mouths of the pockets which lie adjacent to each other and means for securing the intermediate wall to one of the exterior walls and at the mouth thereof to close and lock the.

- pocket formed by and between the same, as

'mouths of the pocket comprising our present invention.

.Referrin to the drawing, 10 designates the cloth 0 a garment in WhlCh' a pocket constructed in acordance with our present invention, is to be made, and as will be understood,

this maybe a pair of trousers, as illustrated,

or a coat or vest, or a ladys skirt, and furthermore the pocket hereinafter described, may be applied to any pocket in either or all of the garments aforesaid. I

The pocket proper preferably comprises a front wall 11, .a back wall 12,-these walls comprising exterior wa1ls,and an interme- Specification of Letters Patent.

Pa.tented Junes', 1909.

diate wall 13, all made of any suitable mate rial, the edges of which may be connected by a line of stitching indicated at 14, and between the front wall 11 and intermediate wall 13, an opening 15 is provided to form the mouth of the pocket and similarly between the intermediate wall 13 and the back wall 12 there i'san opening 16 forming a' mouth for the pocket comprised between these walls, it being understood that a similar and preferably co-extensive pocket .is formed by the front wall 11 and the back wall 12, the mouth of which is indicated at 15 as aforesaid.

At the-extremes of the pocket mouths 15 and 16, the garment may be provided with stitchings 17 and 18 for the purpose of strengthening the same and determining the limits of the pocket mouths.

The ocket between the walls 11' and 12 is prefera bly an ordinary pocket, while the pocket between the walls 1:2 and 13 is made the safety ocket and to this end we preferably provi e the mouth of the safety pocket, adjacent to the edges of the o ening 15 therein, with strips 19, 20, of eather or other suitable material, the strip 19 being secured to the front wall 11 and the stri 20 to the adjacent surface of the intermediate wall 13, and in suitable positions we employ snap-fasteners, the stud members 21 of which are preferably secured in the strip 19 while the socket members 22 thereof are secured in the strip 20, it being understood that when the members of the snap-fasteners are inen- In a garment, a safety pocket com risin exterior walls, a wall intermediate t ereo said wallsbeing connected to form pockets, and provided with openings which form the mouths thereof, strips of material secured to the outer faceof the intermediate wall and the adjacent inner face of the outer exterior wall at the mouth of the pocket formed by' the same, a socket memben of a fastening of a fastening device secured in the strip on the face of the exterior Wall, the said stud and socket being so placed as notto come into contact with the hand in placing the szune inthe other pocket.

Signed h us this 13th day of November,-

- MAX PUGATSKY.

SAMUEL MANNES. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

